"How many Christians are there yet who, after the profession of faith in Christ, come to a stand-still? So many rest contented with the thought that their sins are pardoned and that they are in the path of life. However, they know nothing of a personal attachment to Christ as their leader or of a faith that lives in the invisible and walks with God."
"With many, this is the consequence of hopelessness that came from failure of their utmost efforts to live as they desired. They struggled in their own strength, they did not know Christ as the secret of strength, and then they lost heart and went back. The profession of faith is not cast away and religious habits are kept up, but there is nothing to show that these men and women have entered or are seeking to enter the Holiest to dwell there. The power of the world, the spirit of its literature, the temptations of business and pleasure - all of these unite to make up a religion in which it is sought to combine a comfortable hope for the future with the least possible amount of sacrifice in the present."
Andrew Murray, 'The Holiest of All,' pg. 39
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